Example sentences of "just around the corner " in BNC.
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| 31 | They began a three-year love affair , but were not to marry until he had enjoyed the full fruits of the fame that was just around the corner . |
| 32 | But just around the corner , Death was lying in wait for Dustin once again . |
| 33 | Old ladies trapped in time imagine they are in 1929 and love 's first blossoms are just around the corner , an old man feels angry and cheated that 40 years of his life have disappeared . |
| 34 | That one or two might make enough money to pass as legitimately successful , but that most would go on hoping for and talking about the ‘ up for none touch ’ that was just around the corner if only this and that fell into place until they became little more than saloon-bar bores . |
| 35 | UNLESS you live in their village , town or just around the corner from one , it is unlikely you have ever heard of the six people on this page . |
| 36 | Like Chelsea , Howe has suffered adversity but good times are surely just around the corner in the New Year . |
| 37 | Our politicians still speak of help coming just around the corner , but in the inner cities of England and America , among the chronically unemployed , among the young faced with the long-term prospects of AIDS or the imminent threat of annihilation , there is little talk of hope . |
| 38 | We stayed at Makerstoun from 1966 to 1978 and then , while keeping Makerstoun for weekends , bought a property in Edinburgh ; a neat terraced Regency house in Upper Dean Terrace on the Water of Leith , just around the corner from Raeburn 's lovely Ann Street and a few hundred yards downstream from the house in Belgrave Crescent where I was born . |
| 39 | After examining the photographs , Mr Hayden recognised William Terris who had been murdered in about 1900 in The Strand which lies just around the corner from Covent-Garden Underground Station . |
| 40 | The Manchester Business School and Cambridge University both reckon that the boom on the high street is just around the corner . |
| 41 | ‘ Just around the corner ’ often meant at least half an hour in the car , for example ! |
| 42 | He was a small boy of six who lived just around the corner from her , and for days he had been going on about this great talking parrot his father had given him . |
| 43 | Trouble for the carefree couple , though , was just around the corner |
| 44 | Discs Mansions is the epitome of new business gentility , tucked away in a sweet little Victorian cottage mews in Hammersmith , just around the corner from Island Records — which is probably no coincidence , as we 'll find out later . |
| 45 | Just around the corner at Fawbush a senior member of the Canadian art scene , Betty Goodwin , holds forth with paintings , sculpture and drawings . |
| 46 | But recovery , the OECD argues ( with a familiar ring ) , is just around the corner : it expects average growth next year to rise to 2.7% . |
| 47 | Most would have earnings more like those of the Fu family , who live just around the corner on an income that is about one-fifteenth of the Lis ' . |
| 48 | It was a great advertisement for Test cricket , with the instant variety of the World Cup just around the corner . |
| 49 | Preston Street with its many varied restaurants is just around the corner . |
| 50 | When Sir Eric was appointed Rector in 1985 everyone was congratulating themselves that the financial squeeze on the universities , which had lasted 15 years , was now at an end and that stable funding was just around the corner . |
| 51 | Nowadays we are so scattered about the country that it is very unlikely that any of us would have a Stainey just around the corner who could be relied upon to put up a first class polish . |
| 52 | In the early stages of the Depression he relied on optimistic statements to keep people 's spirits up — " prosperity is just around the corner " he said in 1930 — and on gaining the voluntary co-operation of business leaders in maintaining employment and wages . |
| 53 | General Westmoreland , the American commander in Vietnam , soon called for further reinforcements , claiming that peace was " just around the corner " . |
| 54 | But a new row was just around the corner . |
| 55 | In this imaginary development within Newtonian astronomy , it was never possible to be sure that a major success was not just around the corner . |
| 56 | And if it entailed a degree of sacrifice , there was always the prospect of better times , just around the corner . |
| 57 | They would be based in Union Quay barracks just around the corner ; that would be their home . |
| 58 | Computer technology is developing all the time , and there may be some great new gizmo just around the corner that you 'll want to use in your PC . |
| 59 | The situation today is very muddled , software is available for both the Apple Macintosh and the IBM PC and its compatibles but even more is just around the corner and it wo n't be until towards the end of the first quarter of next year that the market will have stabilised . |
| 60 | He believed that the government had lost credibility , first by denying that any recession ever existed , then by claiming it was only minor , then by claiming that though perhaps it was severe the recovery was just around the corner . |